Judicial ruling may kick-start teacher accountability in California
One of the many ways in which California teachers unions resist accountability is through their long-standing opposition to using student achievement as a metric by which to judge the classroom...
View ArticleLook at who they have to deal with
Is this “bargaining in good faith”? Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union are in the midst of very tough negotiations over a new contract. A strike is a distinct possibility. In order...
View ArticleA big win for parents in California charter school fight
California’s educational establishment suffered a rare blow in 2010, when the state became the first in the nation to allow parents of students in underperforming schools to pull a “parent trigger,” a...
View ArticleCalifornia teachers union attempting to manipulate accountability standards
California lawmakers should be reading their Ralph Waldo Emerson. There’s a great bon mot from the transcendentalist author — “The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.” —...
View ArticleCalifornia teachers want to collectively bargain accountability standards
I’ve written here before about California’s AB 5, the proposed law that the all-powerful California Teachers Association is attempting to use as a vessel for union control of teacher evaluations. With...
View ArticleOne win, one loss as California’s legislative session closes
There’s mixed news out of Sacramento today, as the California Legislature barrels toward the midnight deadline to close out its current session. On the upside, AB 5, a bill which would see the teachers...
View ArticleZero tolerance for kids, mucho tolerance for teachers
I’ve been asked why I always assume that teachers’ union contracts are designed to protect bad teachers from accountability, given that the average public-school teacher one talks to is aghast at the...
View ArticleThe public school hiring boom in administrators
I’ve written before (here and here, for instance) about our decades-long public schools hiring spree and its impact on local budgets and taxes. Now the Friedman Foundation has a formal study on the...
View ArticleBenefit costs gobble up more of school budgets
According to a new Census report, America’s public schools spent slightly less in 2011 than they did in 2010, according to a new census report, but the cost of employee benefits continued to grow,...
View ArticleUnion’s tax initiative sparks Nevada Democratic civil war
An initiative sponsored by the Nevada State Education Association, the state’s teachers’ union, to raise taxes on businesses by some $700 million has drawn a thumbs-down from the state’s AFL-CIO,...
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